Three ways the UK can get people working again – without punishing them

By Katy Jones, Reader in Employment and Head of the Decent Work and Productivity Research Centre, Manchester Metropolitan University

The UK government has put forward ambitious plans to reform the UK’s employment support system. Helping people to find, stay in and succeed at work is a complex policy area. With unemployment at historically low levels, the key issue driving these new reforms is the high number of people – nine million across the country – considered to be “economically inactive”.

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